__NOTOC__ The Dutchmans Stern is a

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located in the

Flinders Ranges The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about north of Adelaide. The ranges stretch for over from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna. The Adnyamathanha people are the Aboriginal group who have inhabi ...

about north-west of the town of

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and north east of the city of

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The mountain was named due to its "supposed resemblance to the stern of a Dutch vessel" with one source attributing the naming to early settlers in the vicinity while another source gives attribution to the British navigator,

Matthew Flinders Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to u ...

.Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 2010, p. 1. The mountain has a height of . Since 1987, it has been located within the boundaries of the

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known as

The Dutchmans Stern Conservation Park The Dutchmans Stern Conservation Park is a protected area located in South Australia about north-west of the town of Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. It includes a mountain known as The Dutchmans Stern from which its name is derived. Descriptio ...

where its "prominent bluff" is considered to be "the main feature" of the conservation park.Department for Environment Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs, 1999, p. 4. The mountain's summit can be reached via a walking trail known as "The Dutchmans Stern Hike" which starts in the carpark at the entrance of the conservation park to the north east of the summit and which is reported by the conservation park's managing authority as consisting of a loop which allows two choices of route - one being a walk of the full loop with a distance of and a return time of 5 hours while the other is the most direct path to the summit with a total distance of and a return time of 4 hours.Department of Environment and Natural Resources, 2010, p. 3.

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